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<p>A - Agency workers:</p><p> </p><p>Agency workers (more commonly referred to as
“Contingent Labour” or “Temporary Workers”) are subject to a Cabinet Office controls
framework to ensure robust governance of spending in this area. This framework can
be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control</a></p><p>
</p><p>Commentary on Contingent Labour usage, if applicable, is available in departmental
annual reports: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments</a></p><p>
</p><p>The Crown Commercial Service provides two frameworks specifically for the supply
of Contingent Labour which are used by central government departments. These are:</p><p>
</p><p>RM3749 - Public Sector Resourcing <a href="https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/rm3749"
target="_blank">https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/rm3749</a>, which provides
a managed service for departmental use including low supplier margins, regular pay
rate benchmarking, comprehensive tracking and reporting of contingent labour assignments,
full time sheeting and approvals technology and onboarding, contracting and payroll
services.</p><p> </p><p>RM6160 - Non Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff <a href="https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6160"
target="_blank">https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6160</a>, which provides
access to a range of generalist, specialist and niche contingent labour agencies offering
a wide range of suppliers, maximum margins, free transfer to permanent after 12 weeks
and onboarding, contracting and payroll services.</p><p> </p><p>Use of these frameworks
provides robust governance, visibility, value for money and flexibility in meeting
departmental contingent labour needs.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has spent the following
on agency workers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Value (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>783,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1,029,471</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022
(up to June)</p></td><td><p>289,177</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>B - Agency
retainer fees:</p><p> </p><p>We have interpreted your reference to agency retainer
fees as the fees charged at the commencement of the provision of a search recruitment
service, this is only applicable when recruiting for a permanent or fixed term post.</p><p>
</p><p>Agency retainer fees are not applicable to the contingent labour market.</p><p>
</p><p>HM Treasury has spent the following on agency retainer fees:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Value
(£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>6,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>117,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>165,851</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The vast majority of HM Treasury’s agency retainer fees relate to the setup
of the UK Infrastructure Bank.</p>
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